who was a rock, who was Mary?

[Blandmum]

Mostly made 'Angel'

Once got to play Mary

How about you?

dd2 was Mary twice and thesecond time they used a real baby

Also always the narrator ? maybe this should be added to the profile of 'typical' mumsnetter.

I didn't get to be in the play at all.

I had to play the chime bars.

Every year.

I was always desperate to be an angel but I was "too tall" and had brown hair

I'm sure it must have been the star readers who were chosen as narrators.

And I got to play chime bars too!!

That just makes it worse!

Chime bars

Oh lummox, sorry. Erm, star musicians who clearly had an excellent ear for music????

hmmmm.

don't suppose you're saying that just to make me feel better, are you?

Usually just stood at the back banging coconut halves together -little donkey high tech sound effects-

Sister was ALWAYS Mary

Remember an occasion quite clearly at infants when i put my hand up to be Mary...and no one else did.Teacher was so annoyed and ignored me and carried on looking around the room " Who wants to be Mary?" She eventually picked someone. This was rural early 1970's England...god forbid there be a brown skinned Mary in the Nativity!!.

I'll get that b*tch back ...be it in this world or the next
Bitter ? twisted? carried that around for 30 plus years?...
Not at all

coconut shells - a new challenge for tamum

Another vote for always the flippin' narrator. Year in year out, never anything else. Don't recall ever being asked either, just had it foisted upon me.

But, hey sounds like we're becoming a clique!

My beautiful boy got to be Joseph though!

A stonking sense of rhythm?

Narrator here too.

Our church does a nativity play during a service in December each year; very ad hoc with no rehearsals and a narrator saying "you, the sheep, get over there now" etc. They always ask for an adult who never got to play Mary, to be Mary. .

Never had any blokes asking to be Mary though. But we insist on men for the angels.

Think ds may get to be baby Jesus this year...

I was a f*king sheep. I wore a fking rug on my back and this mini monster 'shepard' hit me on the a*e with his stick.

GRRRRR. Horrible horrible time. There are even photos of the incredible humiliation.

What I wouldn't have given to be an angel, or the narrator.

No wonder I am an athiest.

Yet another narrator. We had the same play every year (starting off with John the Baptist and various quotes from Isaiah). Can still quote most of the first Chapter of Luke off by heart.

Not only was I a narrator, I was Chief Narrator with a team of 9 other narrators (definitely no room in the inn/stable for us).

Another always the flipping narrator here. Always in grey school uniform instead of a sparkly angel dress. Not that I minded-oh no not much

A mouse (left the stage and went off to the loo, then resumed position. Can't remember the mouse in the nativity story myself, but never mind)
then Mary

I had all the boring parts with never a word spoken.

one year we did a christmas carol. i thought great, i'll get a speaking part. I was given third ghost. I was so upset I cried and the teacher told me they'd made a mistake, that they'd assigned scrooge, bob cratchit and the three ghosts to the 5 best readers and had forgotten that the third ghost is non-speaking.

I am still bitter about it.

Hello people! I was a sheep! A sheep!

Still, nobody cares, she mutters darkly...

ds is a sheep this year, and ds is Joseph! This will end in tears, I can feel it in my water!